You go there with your parents, with your boyfriend, with your own kids and also in between.

Last Sunday I went with my parents up the hill to this castle:

(my brother took this picture with my camera a year ago...)

It's not far away from my hometown and I love it. I would like to go up there every day (would be a perfect work out). I just realized that last Sunday was the first time that I took my camera with me to this place...
Here is a picture overload. I don't think that I have to explain anything. Just enjoy the beauty :)

Location: Riegersburg. Styria. If you want to know more about the castle read this article. It's hard to find English articles about the region I live...I think this one is ok...read it! ;)

Only Pictures in May - Days 18, 19, 20, 21 and 22 - Chocolate Factory

At the 2nd of May I told you that I'll post every day in May. Well, it was predictable, that it won't go well. But I have an excuse for not posting this week: Final exams!
I had my last written exam today and now I'm FREE! .... for 4 weeks :P
The next two weeks I want to relax a bit and do some stuff I havn't done for weeks.
Today, we went to a chocolate factory. Yummie! It was the third time that we went there and it is always great fun to see how they produce the chocolate and you can eat chocolate all the time.
You can check out the homepage here: Zotter Schokolademanufaktur
Their chocolate is all organic and fair.
The best thing about Zotter-chocolate are the ingredients. Sure, there is "normal" chocolate, but they have special flavours like ketchup, cheese, chili, rice,...
Here are some pics I took there:

They look so tasty!

Chocolate balls in a small mixing machine.

The room with the chocolate-ball-mixing-machines. Look at the top. Hundreds of Origami cranes! Wow!

I love this chocolate factory. They are presenting there chocolate in many different ways. This one is really cool. Here we got a glass of milk and there was a mini cable railway transporting small packages of drinking chocolate. The coolest thing I've ever seen! ;)

The last stop of the factory. It's called "running chocolate"

That's it! I hope you all have a nice start to the weekend. Enjoy it!
And here's a last picture of my day.

My brother took it with my camera out of the car at the way home. I forced him to take it :P I love this castle.

Only pictures in May - Day 4 - Keep out

Dogs...um...dwarfs, keep out!!!

It's ridiculous or simply March

I don't really like March. It's because you can't define which season it is. It isn't winter and it isn't spring. It's something awful between winter and spring. At the moment we have winter. It's terrible cold outside. One week ago, last monday, it was spring. It was warm and didn't wear a coat and only ONE pullover and ONE T-Shirt. Today I wore TWO T-Shirts, TWO Pullover and a coat! What's going on?
But it was a nice day to take some photos.

I love the old buildings of our town. The building at the left is an old castle in the centre of the town. It's a museum.

And this shot shows how much winter we still have...
Do you see that pile of trees? Guess what kind of trees these are?
Guess...
Okay, I'll tell you...
It's a pile of christmas trees! Did you get it? Christmas trees!!! CHRISTMAS!
Okay, I think you understand what I mean... ;)


This is the only shot, which looks a bit like spring...only a small bit...

Sky

Today the sky was so pretty!

Early in the afternoon

Later in the afternoon

And my favourite. In the evening.

Have a nice Sunday and a wonderful first day of March!

There is no end...

Some snow pictures again. I really like all the snow, but it's a bit boring to take photos, because they always look the same. Everything white, but beautiful.
Yesterday I decided to take some photos in town and not as usual somewhere outside in the nature.
And just for information: We now have more snow than in the pictures. It snows since yesterday evening and it goes on and on...

It's the same tree up there like here

Haha, the water of the fontain is frozen...

Through a small window

I love those stairs, I think I have to go there again today...

Snow pictures!

Today I grabbed my camera and jumped out into the snow!

Oh yeah! Snow is great!


;)



Doesn't it look beautiful? And yes, that's me jumping around...

Have a nice snowy weekend!

Last day of the year walk

Some photos I took today.

The light was really beautiful


My brother...


I love that tree! I want such a big old oak tree in our garden... :)

Wonderful Winter Walk

Here are some winter and snow impressions...
I took the photos today at our sunday walk. It was fantastic!





Have a nice week!

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Another fantastic tree!

This tree definitly has a face...


There are so many great trees out there and I'm on the way to find them ;)

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The "H-Tree"

Detail:

I think that's amazing!
How can trees grow like this?

When the car get stuck...

When the car get stuck...

...you have enough time to explore the area
...you have enough time to take photos
...you can see things you wouldn't see without a car, which is stuck...
...you have to be patient
...you pray a lot
...you are happy after getting home healty






It was a beautiful place...

Have a nice week!